When you’re a woman in any industry, you have to deal with unspoken expectations of what to wear and, in some cases, how to “act.” Yes, there is bias and yes, it’s part of culture. To say that bad gender treatment doesn’t exist, means that you probably haven’t experienced it or even recognized it for […]
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Musings and Opinions
This is What I Think of “Social” Search
Everything you need to know about my feelings on Google’s latest update is summed up in this article: Google’s Social Search: The Tech Giant’s Disastrous Decision to Muck Up Its Search Results For more than a decade, Google search wasn’t “social” in any way. When I searched for a new car or a European hotel […]
H.O.N.E.Y. a Free Story from my Morgue
I am feeling magnanimous today, so much so that after waking up at three o’clock this morning I’ve decided to dip into my Morgue and share with you a piece I wrote back in college. (And later revised slightly for a few grammatical sparkles that, no doubt, savvy proofreaders may argue at length with me […]
Look at Your Clock. Now Look at Your Dreams.
Ever since I stopped watching my word count and worrying about b.s., my productivity has jumped. I’ve written, on average, 5,000 words a day on top of my core responsibilities for the past two weeks. I have fallen in love with my art again. No wonder the Old Spice guy popped into my head this […]
Be Happy. Roll Some Dice.
Last year, I started Speak Out With Your Geek Out to encourage people to have fun about whatever it is they were into, to spread the happy and the shiny. What happened as a result of that was a swelling community of people who rallied around each other and who were genuinely interested in what […]